Bullhead House Remodel {The Wood Floors}

Our biggest project for the house was replacing the tile and carpet with wood floors. We didn't want to spend too much money on it since we weren't sure what our ROI would be here in Bakersfield, so kept it in the low middle range. We shopped and shopped and shopped for wood that we liked and boy was that a hard decision! Of course, all the ones that I really loved were 8-10+ a square feet and with 1350 square feet, that would have been crazy expensive! We were looking for a medium color wood with more brown and gray tones than red and yellow tones. We originally chose this hand scraped hardwood from Lumber Liquidators, but when we were going to order it, we found out that it couldn't be glued and needed to be nailed down or installed with a special membrane. Back to square one. 

The one to the right...

After a few more shopping trips, we ended up at Lumber Liquidators again and found an engineered hardwood, with the color we wanted. However, we were a bit hesitant because the wood came in difference sizes and we weren't sure how that was going to look. By this point, I was pretty tired and just wanted to get the darn thing started so we just went for it and couldn't have been happier.

They laid down the floors, added new 3 1/2 moldings, painted the moldings, cleaned the floors all in about a week or so. There were 3 guys working at a time. Now that everything is done and kind of settled with the floors, the only thing that drives me crazy are the glue spots around the house! I mean they cleaned the majority of it off but there are still spots that are hard to get off because the floors aren't the shiny sealed kind so it gets in all the grooves and stuff. Anyways, lets just say I've put in my fair share of floor scrubbing for a lifetime. Ha. We will see how well I can keep these floors cleaned. Here are some pictures! The house looks totally different now!

Before

During

After

Stay tuned for the guest bathroom updates!